Note 89 — Chapter III · GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH AND THE CHRONICLERS

The question of the mythological origin of the Round Table is one of the many indeterminate problems of Arthurian “criticism.” For a suggestive study of the question see Brown, The Round Table before Wace (Harvard Studies and Notes, Vol. VII., 1900), where he confidently states that “the Round Table was a very early Pan-Celtic institution.”